The Deep 3 Podcast - Every NBA Superstar Explained In 1 Word

Episode Date: February 24, 2026

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Michael Jordan is commonly referred to as the goat. Shack referred to as dominance. Every NBA legend can be talked about in one word. Today, we are going to describe every superstar in the league today with one word. Okay, let's do it. Janus. Manipulator. Dishonest.

Indecisive. Indecisive is the right word. Yeah. Outside of like freak. But for this moment in 2020, Gaslighter. Gaslider. Love me, love me not.

Love me and love me now. You decide. Do you want me or not? Performative Like even outside of this year Performatives a good word Dude yeah With that fucking

With that movie Wolf Wall Street thing That he posted Come on man Oh performative Come on man Pretending he had no parts In the trade conversations He was waiting for that show

Performative Investor He never had a smoothie Come on dog You said for the jump He was performing Different had a smoothie That's the one I actually

Can't believe Never Come on, Doug. They weren't eaten. He wasn't eaten. Nicole Iokic. There's like a real thing. I know.

Nicole Yokic. Two. Lackadaisical. Yeah, just relax. Just natural. D&D. He just stays on D&D mentally. Naturally always.

Is he too cool for school? Do you want him to be a little more? shallot? Yeah, should he be more salant? Shalant. Do we have a problem with the fact

there's not enough shalant in his bones? Yeah, is he lacking shallot? Definitely. Is shalant a word? It's got to be right. It's got to be right.

Yeah. I feel like it. I feel like, I bet it's a word. I'm a look at it. I bet it's a word. Should he begin? Shalot maxing?

Yes. 100%. We've gone too far with language. Just putting words together. What else can I say? Goat, skilled, genius, beautiful. I can keep going. Beautiful.

I can keep going. Horses. Horses. So, no. So, shalant isn't a word. What? It's just, yeah, it's just. It's just slang based off of nonchalant.

So why did we get to a place? The fuck is nonchalant. I don't know. Why do we get to a place where we made a word like nonchalant where we add non and then another word, but the other word doesn't exist? That's, why would we have done that? Come on, man. I don't know.

What is the origins of nonchalant? Who made, who made this? All right, so nonchalant is here. I'm trying to look up like the root words. That's ridiculous. That doesn't make any sense. It's not showing. English language, man, all this floges.

Hey, Shalant, Ponzi's keen. You gotta get to the bottom of nonchalant. Yo, Shalant's money laundering. Shea Gildes Alexander. Grifter. Oh, come on. Smooth. Is he still ORA man, or is that done?

People are still mean to him now. I think they don't even consider him to have aura. They just hate him. Yeah. Hatable. That's the word. For some reason, he's become the most hated player in the league. Hatable.

I think being so good makes you hateable, too. So hateable is definitely the word. Just wait until zero comes back. His name is Jason. No one calls him zero. No one calls him zero. No one calls him the anomaly. Zero trying to be cool.

Hey, he's Jason. Yeah. You stop that right now. That's zero. That's a whole nine. That's all. That's all. thing, bro.

I just went, mm-hmm. I thought he said Z-R-O, zero. I was like, who is zero? I thought he was doing

like a D-R-S type thing for with Z. I was like, who is zero? You said Z-R-O. Like zero, like D-R-O. Like zero.

The 2000 Houston dropper zero? I'll approve of my point, man, just wait until he comes back. That most hated in the league. No one ever caused of that, bro. Your fucking zero is crazy. He's galloping on

Jason's hit his dick about being hated. I'm the most hated actually. Fuck out of here. Kids for fuck. Point proving, y'all. Point fucking proving. Loki, you're right. Luca Doshich.

I don't know. 77's kind of tough. I don't know the word. I'm crying. 77's tough. What's the word for like? ups and downs, like has his goods. Roller coaster.

Yeah, but not, it's a constant state of having pros and cons. Inconsistent? No, because he's consistent. Fluctuating? Nope, you're saying the same thing over and over. Mixed back. Like, he has his strength and has his weaknesses.

But it's not flush, because he never changes. It's not volatile, though, because he's always the same player. He has a lot of weaknesses. Well, if you're volatile, you're not the same. So he's not volatile. What I'm saying?

No. That's what I'm saying. If you're volatile, you're up and down. I'm saying he has strengths and weaknesses that are both there. at all times. You know what I'm saying?

Like I'm saying he's the most skill player to have glaring weaknesses. How do we describe that? Hardin. Two words. White Harding. I don't know.

Detracting? Damning. I think detracting means coming in, like a roof. Your flaws are detracting. You find your own word, then. I'm not going to say you

try to find your word for you. I'm going to give you five options for a word. You didn't like you. one of them. That's all you get. None of the words describe what I was asking for. Go get a dictionary.

You find your old. Do that. Skilled, probably. He's probably can be known as one the most skilled players of all time.

Lame ass word. That's probably the right for him though. Whether or not he's good enough to ever accomplish what we want to do is always going to be like one of the most skilled guys.

Controversial. I think is he though? I was thinking that. Is he the overall? I think so because I still think you have like the can you win with his. style of play and you have you have luka and you have like awesome reaches leveled up you

have lebron for whatever is that worth and like the lakers are bad and his defense is not amazing individually and people are going to look at them and be like their defense sucks because of him so it's like it's it's always back and forth it's always something about luca anthony edwards you can't i'll say you could say prototype i'll do this sound prototype is the word He is everything people want from the face of the league From the best player in the league at that shooting guard position He checks all the boxes Orra man right now

Yeah, ORA is also obviously always the word Unlimited, bro Unlimited potential You can do anything and everything on the core, bro Now we're glazing I don't know too many players You can come into the league But you know what?

I want to be a 40% three-point shooter Take eight nine threes a game I can be so not Unlimited is a last year Beesles hot. And he was like, you. And everything.

He was like, Anthony Edwards, God. What? You can do anything. Y'all dragging it. Drag. I just laughed because I saw his face.

I saw his reaction. We are just waiting to drag somebody. That was crazy. That's crazy. Right. I see what you mean. Improvement. Develop the post game

and the singular off season two. Come on, man. Improvements will be the story of Anthony Edwards just constantly adding on. Whether or not those improvements are unlimited

I don't know. Let me see improve it. Let me see you prove there's limits. Show me a limit. I'm so called Goku at this point. That's exactly the energy you gave. No matter of the opponents, no matter the power level,

who can tell you to rise. He's fucking Spider-Man. Holy fuck. Victor Wemba. Unlimited. Deity. You guys are trying to come up with a new religion here. Remember that,

Brom, some life's due that we did. Yeah. Enlightened. We got to convert people to the temple of Wembe. Yeah. Nasty. Yeah. Enlightening, I would say, for one.

Crazy. Going bald midseason, I don't think there will be in any, any, like, more young stars ever do that. I'll say spark. He's exactly what the NBA needed to spark. some new life and do it. Give us a face of league type guy

that's willing to say all the right things, play the role you need from the guy who cares about everything. He's a spark. At this point, he is the NBA savior. The spark, just call him the sun, man.

Yeah, low key. H2O. He's smart. He filled it into my veins, filling into my lungs, is everything I need in life. Also, imagine if Ant went bald. If Ant went bald midseason.

This is Jordan. LeBron James. Fading. Oh, man. Oh, yeah. Sit down. Oh, that's two words. Two words.

Yeah, that's, that would be lower. You still have, you still have nights road. You see LeBron turn up, but it's just not the same. Yeah, it's nearing its end pretty clearly. This is the year where, like, we've been saying it year by year, it feels more washed. This is the year where it feels like we're in the final chapter. For real, like, it feels like he could very much retire in three months. Wayning.

Wayning. Good vocaboard. One good word for him, bro. You know about moon cycles. Good one. Crescendo. That's the opposite. That's when it goes up.

I was thinking the end, but you're right. It goes up, not down. So what's the opposite? What's the opposite of a crescendo in musical terms? Dechrescendo. Dechrescendo? Yeah.

Dechrescendo. You know that. Jay Cole. All right. Steph Curry. Hopeless. Damn. Alone.

still? So low. Huh? Solitude. Amber Alert. Facts. Find his help. Help.

Help. Help. Help. Do I have to be loyal? Guys, I don't like it here. It's cold. It's all you can talk about with 2026, Steph Curry.

It's the lack of help. of presence around him and the fact that we all kind of just got to say it is what it is. With any other star we might fire us and trade convos, we all know it's not happening. It simply is what it is. Bammed. Inevitable. The conclusion is inevitable

that it's going to go outside. Come on, Seth. Kevin Durant. Snake to the day. Still a snake. That's a 10-year nickname, bro. You keep running right? It's crazy.

Every time you get off the snake pipe, you go right back. It's a life longer. addiction to unloyalty. Come on, man. He injects toxicity into his veins. Can't scratch that itch. Come on, man.

Twitter. Burned. Burner. Get off my Dickerson. Dickerson. Dickerson. I'm more referring to him forever and I was just Dickerson. Get off my dickerson.

Mr. Dickerson. Cocaine. Cocaine. Chippo double bear. Crazy, but yeah. Unloyal. It feels like he'll say anything about anybody. Not a great teammate.

want to have in my side. Selfish. You say he's keeping it real, though. Yeah, that's a problem. Keep it to two real is absolutely a problem. When keeping it real goes wrong. Sometimes you need manners. Sometimes it's good to not be 100% real. I see a word of where like they fucking,

Houston Rockets crash and burn out and he request his trade during the offseason. I can see that. He's a nomad. A nomad. A nomad. Yeah, just be a word. Is he even request a trade or are they going to shop them because shit got left? Either way, both.

He's to get ahead of it and be like, actually, I want to go. The James Hardin. You're going to text the group chat. Jabari over me? Facts. Quay Leonard. Resurgence. Correct.

Come back. Confusing. Silent. Trees. Trees. Correct. Always. Always trees.

Scheming. I'll say selfish. Always scheming. But in a good way. Like, I aspire to be that level of self-preservation. I forget how, bro. Hands. Look, he's swallowing the ball right now.

I saw a picture. There you. I saw a picture of him and Kevin Durant high-fiving. Yeah. It looked like a child next to Kevin Durant. That shit is crazy as hell. Kevin Durant's seven feet tall. Dude, could anyone survive a slap from Kauai Leonard?

No, your head's falling off. You can't decapitated game of throne style. You can't move again for the rest of your life. It's bad. He would slap you and his fingers would like wrap around the other side of the other side of the day. His fingers would touch each other. We feel like a semi-truck to shit out of you. He's like gripping a pencil for him.

It's your head. Damn, man. That's a crazy visual. Like, could he, like, what's the widest thing he can wrap his hands around? Honestly, I don't know. A fridge? I think a gallon of milk. Oh, easily.

I feel like, could you do to water milk? I mean, could you come closer to a gallon of milk? I don't think a gallon of milk. No, I can't. No, a gallon of milk is. Okay. I've never tried to grab a gallon of milk. So I don't know.

I can definitely do that. Could he wrap his hands around Mo's head? No. Is yes. Yes. Easily. His head is ginorminal. Here to hear?

Yeah. But two hands easily. Oh, two hands. Could he wrap his head or his hands are on your head? Just one hand. Maybe. Maybe. Just palm your entire face.

You don't see no features but just hair. He's going to dribble him? Maybe. Jason Tatum. All right. Here we go. No, go ahead. Say words.

Zero. My word, man. Misunderstood. Farming. What is misunderstood about Tatum? He wants you to understand him so bad. He's a cool guy, man. Y'all don't understand that he's the chosen one.

Sorry. Doing car wheels on him, man. Three words of other. Things. Come on now. Yeah. Farmer. Constantly trying to aura farm, trying to clip farm.

Never goes well, but he tries. Want to be, man. Damn. Always wanted to be Kobe. Can't sniff that type of war, man. Be yourself. Yeah. Inauthentic.

Yeah. Inauthentic. He probably has the biggest golf between his likability and his skill, I can remember, just because, like, he's so good, but he has the persona of somebody so bad. You're right. He has the prototypical, like, he's a wing, you can dribble, dunk on people, play defense. Despite not being problematic. Because I just said that, there's a lot of, like, really good players that are terrible people. So you hate them?

He's a great guy. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. He's everything's Anthony Edwards has done in this world. Nobody cares. Compared to Tatum, Brad.

Nobody cares. Yeah, you're right. Yeah, I guess, yeah. If inauthentic is wrong, perception is probably the word. Yeah. Or presentation. Bad rap is really how we describe him. Is that it doesn't really make sense why everybody dislikes him.

It just is what it is. Yeah. Misunderstood. Sure. Sure. Just be telling himself that. No, I think he's extremely understood. I think he's very understood and people understand they don't like him very much.

Fares. Jalen Brunson. Savior. Savior New York basketball. Scammed. Captain. No, man. He got scammed.

Dude, I saw a tweet while you were in the bathroom earlier. He's now eligible in the year 2028 for like a four-year $17 million contract. He stays tickling. I'm sorry. You're in the bathroom. I saw you run a part of the conversation. He's eligible for a four-year or five-year, $417 million contract. That's over $80 million a year.

They're not paying him that. Breaded. No, he's not getting that money. he got scammed he gave him over a hundred million dollars selfless that's all I'm hearing he's willing to sacrifice for the team to bring in

Gershon Yabuselli they couldn't get Gershon Yabuselli without his sacrifice tactical no man yes because now he's probably doing

the same thing that Kaua was doing but he sent out a couple tweets probably he's probably planted a tree and he he's gonna get that money fair Tyrese Halliburton

man unique what's the word he goes down his own path plays his own style nobody's like him in the league old school Loki

yeah kind of oh it's two words but you been doing it the whole time it's okay though we give you two word pass I have you get two we get one avenging

it's like a handicap in golf you got a one word handicap Get the little side in the bowling alley Oh yeah Bumbers You go little boy Give him a break

He's too He's to catch up He's new here Old school is right though He feels like he's from a bygone era Of what would it be like If these past first point guards That don't exist today

Came up in this league today Madness I don't think I've ever seen Until like the year 2011 of course A run A single handle run Where it was just like So unexpected from player of his level

Ridiculous 311 What was the other one? Dirk Dirk yeah That's not unexpected though. Yes, it was.

Hell yeah. To win? To win? Oh. Like, okay, like to win, yes. But even like the run, it's still like... Oh, you're talking about the pathway. Yeah.

Gotcha. What do you mean? That's super unexpected. They weren't supposed to win those series, all of them. And Dirk wasn't exactly the label as a playoff Riser at the time. To have that kind of crazy run? No, but it's not. I think Dirk in 2011 is much different than Tyrese and, like, last year.

In terms of, like, the way that we see Dirk and like, what he ultimately is capable of, where it's like... Can you put it together and do it because we know you have the ability as opposed to. Sure. I had no idea that that Halliburton could knock out all these clutch shots, all this stuff. That part's different because Durk been in the league for a long time. But I think outside of that, I'll admit, it was pretty similar. Yeah.

Okay. Okay. Riser. Kade Cunningham. NEM. Tough. He's just tough. He is tough.

He's very tough. Yeah. Hooper. I can't think of him like many more words from real. Eyes. Okay. Drew. Yeah, he's just tough.

Help. Help him. Someone dribble and shoot. Big. Cadenham. Tough Hooper. That story of his life. That's it.

He's being tough. Just being tough. Sometimes it's all you need. You can get real far, reputation-wise, but being tough. Look at Tatum. Not tough. Much better at basketball. Not tough.

How is that first far? It's true. so I'll care about. I'm still not tough. There'd never be a day he's respected like Kate's respected. That's fine. That's honestly true.

And Kate hasn't even won a playoff series yet. And I'm making jokes about Cade having all these like aura points. Tatum's also conventionally attractive. Not tough. Not tough, man. I'm going to pull this out. You know,

hard is to be very good at basketball, play for the Celtics, be 6-8, light skin, and not be tough. And not be the face of the league? Yeah. I mean, the face of untuff at that. Yeah.

man brother you want a you won a championship and got benched in the olympic hand bamba water nigger that should be fracking me bro shut up zero saying that oh my god stop saying that oh my god